Effective Teaching | Harry K. Wong Publications STEAM tips and resources you can use right now | eSchool News | eSchool News | 2 ArtsEdge, from the Kennedy Center, offers resources for educators to integrate arts into their classroom instruction. The site features lessons, activities, and projects, along with multimedia such as games, audio and video clips, printables, and graphics. Themes that help students connect arts to other education topics include acoustics and sound; earth, wind, and water; the Civil War; and plants and seasons. Season 43 of Sesame Street focuses on STEAM and the importance of STEM knowledge in arts-based careers, such as that of a musician, dancer, or painter. STEAM not STEM maintains that arts education is key to creativity, and creativity supports innovation. “Clearly the combination of superior STEM education combined with Arts education (STEAM) should provide us with the education system that offers us the best chance for regaining the innovation leadership essential to the new economy,” according to the site.
Parent University Javascript is required to use <a href=" href=" translator</a>, <a href=" delivery network</a> Home - Parent University Welcome to Parent University! Parent University is an opportunity for parents to sharpen their skills as they work in one of life's most important and demanding roles. Sessions focus on child development, what children are learning in schools, advocacy, parent leadership and effective parenting skills. Launched in 2009, Parent University was established by the Boston Public Schools Office of Family and Student Engagement as the primary strategy to build the capacity of parents to be actively engaged in their children's education. The goal of BPS Parent University is to "educate and empower parents as partners, advocates and lifelong teachers in their child's education through educational courses and leadership opportunities." To fill out a Request for Proposal, click here.
Volume 31, No.1 - Fall 2016 - Rethinking Schools Online Volume 31 Number 1ShareThis Cover Story By Amy Lindahl Teachers learn that the district’s plan for a desperately needed school renovation is based on “100 percent utilization”— teachers will rotate through classrooms, losing the home bases students depend on. They organize to change the plan. Features By Grace Cornell Gonzales A 3rd-grade bilingual teacher describes how administrators’ anxiety about standardized test results erodes both a school’s commitment to Spanish literacy and students’ love for learning. Por Grace Cornell Gonzales | Traducido por Vanesa Ortiz Solís Una maestra bilingüe describe cómo la ansiedad que sienten los administradores escolares con respecto a los resultados de los exámenes estandarizados disminuye el compromiso de la escuela con el desarrollo de la lectoescritura en español y el amor de los estudiantes por el aprendizaje. By Linda Christensen By Jody Sokolower By Tom McKenna By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca By Karen Zaccor By Alexa Schindel and Sara Tolbert Departments
Curation: Creatively Filtering Content We are living in an era of information overload. So much content is shared online that curation is needed as a way to get value out of the information flood. Content curation is the process of shifting through the vast abundance of content on the Internet to select the best, most relevant resource, on a specific topic or theme, so that we can organize, manage and collate the content for ourselves and share with others. Content curation is about working smarter and not harder. Why is curation important? Curation is a life skill and an important part of being digitally literate. While at the Edutech National Congress & Expo I curated the best resources shared from the Edutech conference into a Flipboard magazine. The purpose of this post is to showcase all the different ways content was curated at the Edutech National Congress & Expo to: Provide a deeper understanding of curation.Provide inspiration to try alternative curation methods.Make you appreciate the importance of curation. Blog posts
Roots of Empathy untitled Initiatives and Programs Advocacy and Policy Get informed, get involved, make a difference. From the classroom to Capitol Hill, get the latest education policy news and developments, and learn about opportunities to take action. Emerging Leaders ASCD is committed to engaging a diverse community and building capacity to improve learning, teaching, and leadership. Student Chapters The ASCD Student Chapter Program accelerates the professional growth of preservice educators and their self-identification as education professionals.
Comparing methodologies for developing an early warning system The purpose of this report was to explicate the use of logistic regression and classification and regression tree (CART) analysis in the development of early warning systems. It was motivated by state education leaders' interest in maintaining high classification accuracy while simultaneously improving practitioner understanding of the rules by which students are identified as at-risk or not at-risk readers. Logistic regression and CART were compared using data on a sample of grades 1 and 2 Florida public school students who participated in both interim assessments and an end-of-the year summative assessment during the 2012/13 academic year.
Differentiated Instruction Works: How and Why to Do DI Differentiated instruction is an approach to teaching in which educators actively plan and adjust for students’ differences so that instruction suits and supports all students’ strengths and needs. It is the process of ensuring that what a student learns, how he or she learns it, and how the student demonstrates what he or she has learned is a match for that student’s readiness level, interests, and preferred mode of learning. There can be differentiation of content, process, product, and learning environment. On this episode of the Whole Child Podcast, Sean Slade, ASCD’s director of whole child programs, and guests explore what differentiated instruction is, what the necessary components of a differentiated learning environment are, and how real teachers are applying differentiation principles and strategies to respond to the needs of all learners. Listen to the episode below or download it here. Panelists Carol Ann Tomlinson is the William Clay Parrish Jr.